Jun Nishikawa

Jun Nishikawa (8 August 1950-) was a Japanese Red Army member.

Biography
Jun Nishikawa was born on 8 August 1950, and he joined the Japanese Red Army, taking part in the 1974 hostage-taking at France's embassy in The Hague alongside Junzo Okudaira and Haruo Wako, gaining $300,000. However, the money was lost to the Syrian government when they arrived in Syria, and in 1975 he was released from a brief stay in a Stockholm, Sweden prison after the AIA Building in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia was stormed by the JRA. On 28 September 1977 he helped in the hijacking of Japan Airlines Flight 472, and he was later captured in Bolivia. He was sentenced to life imprisonment back in Japan, and an appeal in 2011 was turned down.